Friday, January 5 - Saturday, January 13

INCOMING! is Under the Radar’s festival within a festival, featuring in-process works of artistic ambition by the wildly diverse artists of the Devised Theater Working Group.

The discovery of a pocket watch in a timeworn attic catapults a pair of old lovers through an epic expanse of generations and landscapes—the Venetian Renaissance, an Egyptian burial, a 1970s doctor’s office, and a virtual reality forest in the near future. In this dioramic triptych of realism, post-modern historic farce, and media performance, harunalee confronts the ways memory and trauma are racialized and gendered across time. Memory Retrograde negotiates the inextricable relationship between personal and cultural memory, and transforms the English language into an emotional territory, where heightened experience is synonymous with the irrationality of words and language.

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INCOMING! Memory Retrograde Production Photos

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Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

Photo by Sasha Arutyunova

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harunalee is an ensemble of performers and designers who collaborate across artistic disciplines to create experimental plays and performances helmed by Kristine Haruna Lee. With an eye for handmade and craft objects, they create epic visual landscapes that physically accompany Lee’s text. Their work has been hailed by the New York Times as “full of impulses and ideas, and splendid, fractious energy. Since 2010, they’ve created six original works: Memory Retrograde, to the left of the pantry and under the sugar shack, War Lesbian, Drunkfish Oceanrant, Plum de Force and Strange Worlds in my Mind.

Their work has been developed/presented by Ars Nova’s Makers Lab, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist Residency, La MaMa Club, Bushwick Starr Propeller Project Series, Dixon Place Mondo Cane! Residency & Commission, JACK, York College Performing and Fine Arts, Prelude Festival, New Dramatists, Asian American Writer’s Workshop, Danspace/Food for Thought, Little Theater, Target Margin Lab and Ars Nova’s ANT Fest. They are currently part of The Public’s Devised Theater Working Group, and have been supported by The Indie Theater Fund, The Mental Insight Foundation, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Arts Grant for their collaboration with Built for Collapse, and the Lotos Foundation. harunalee is Stivo Arnoczy, Sasha Arutuynova, Karen Boyer, Andrew R. Butler, Greg Laffey, Sarah Lurie, Lauren Swan-Potras and Kristine Haruna Lee.

This work was developed in part by Ars Nova’s Makers Lab Residency 2016-2017 and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange Artist-in-Residence Program 2015-2017 with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Jerome Robbins Foundation and the Jerome Foundation. Additional funding for development provided by The Lotos Foundation, Indie Theater Fund, Mental Insight Foundation, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, and support from our individual donors.

THE PHILIP AND JANICE LEVIN FOUNDATION provides support for The Public’s access and engagement programming.

All orders subject to $3 per ticket service fee and $1.50 per ticket facility fee. There is a $1 per ticket package fee per performance for UTR Packs. Service fees for single tickets are waived at the Box Office window. All fees are waived for Public Theater Members and Partners. Plays, titles, actors, directors, and performance dates and times are subject to change. All sales are final, no refunds or cancellations.